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Creature — Goblin Mercenary

Start your engines!

Other Goblins you control have haste.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token. That token attacks this combat if able.

Max speed — : Add for each Goblin you control.

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Set

Aetherdrift (DFT #134)

Rarity

Rare

Mana value

3

Released

2025-02-14

Artist

Leonardo Santanna

EDHREC rank

#3,194

Colour identity

Finishes

Nonfoil, Foil

Served from

Local database

Commander bracket

EDHREC

Combos 34

All 34 combos.

Format legality

Rulings

• 2025-02-07

  A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.

• 2025-02-07

  Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.

• 2025-02-07

  If an effect needs to know what a player’s speed is and that player doesn’t have a speed, their speed is considered 0.

• 2025-02-07

  Mana abilities don’t use the stack, which means that they can’t be responded to. Notably, this means that a player can’t respond to this creature’s last ability by destroying one of your Goblins.

• 2025-02-07

  Start your engines! isn’t a triggered ability. Increasing your speed to 1 is something that happens as a state-based action as soon as you control a permanent with the ability. Notably, this includes gaining control of a permanent with the ability that another player controls.

• 2025-02-07

  Your speed doesn’t change until a spell or ability says so, such as the inherent triggered ability that cares about opponents losing life during your turn. Notably, losing control of permanents with start your engines! doesn’t affect your speed.

• 2025-02-07

  “Max speed — [ability]” means “As long as you have max speed, this object has [ability].” If the granted ability functions in a zone other than the battlefield, the max speed ability does too.